Sunny Priyan
This image from the Hubble Space Telescope reveals an ancient, glimmering ball of stars called NGC 1466.
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It is a globular cluster — a gathering of stars all held together by gravity.
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This is slowly moving through space on the outskirts of the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of our closest galactic neighbours.
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Like batches of cookies, stars are born together in groups.
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These star clusters, containing as many as 1 million members, evolve over time largely through a gravitational pinball where more massive stars are segregated from lower mass stars.
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Heavy stars tend to progressively sink toward the central region of the star cluster, while low-mass stars can escape from the system.
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